Ambala Wholesale Cloth Merchants’ Association chief Vishal Batra said they had accompanied some locals living and working around Shambhu to the protest site to meet the unions and resolve the matter. However, an argument took place and association members left immediately, he added.
HCMSA general secretary, Dr Anil Yadav on Tuesday said a meeting of the state level core committee was held on June 16 to discuss the status of their demands
Farmers in the Amravati capital region of Andhra Pradesh, who had been agitating for the last four-and-a-half years against the previous YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s decision to form three capitals for the state, withdrew their agitation hours after N Chandrababu Naidu took oath as the state’s new chief minister on Wednesday.
The feature, Farming The Revolution, from Mumbai-based filmmaker Nishtha Jain, was the winner of the Best International Feature Documentary Award on Saturday at Hot Docs, the largest documentary film festival in North America